THE PTTSBTJIIG DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, MAT' 25. 1892. e Bigpafolj. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 8, 1S6 Vol. 47. No. )0S -Entered at nttsburg Postofflce November, 38S7, as second-class matter. Business Office Corner Smithfield and Diamond Streets. News Rooms and Publishing House 78 and 80 Diamond Street, in New Dispatch Building. FARTF.RN ADVnUTISISO '1KKICK. ROOM W. TRIBUNE mill.DIXO. NEW YORK, where com' iit aIac f Tllir.nisPATPIIcan alnars be found. 'nimTXEmiii.nixo. f,iv yukk. wi .lete flics nrTHF.IHsPATCHcan always Foreign adt misers appreciate tlie convenience, Home advertl-.cn and friend? ofl II K DISl'ATCH, while In New York, arc also made welcome. THE DISPATCHU regularly onsalent Breatana't. tl Union iffMlrr. Aeto lork, and V Av de fOp'ra. Pant. France, v-here avjnne who hat been disap pointed at a hotel news stand can obtain it. TERMS OT THE UlSrATCH. POSTAGE THEE IX THE UXITED STATES. miLT DisrATcn. One Year 8 no Daily Dispatch. Per Quarter 100 Daily DiSPATrll. One Month 70 Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday. I year.. 10 CO Daily Dispatch, Including Sunday, 3m'ths, 2 JO Daily Dispatch. Including Sunday, lm'th.. SO Suxday Dispatch. Ouc Year ISO Weekly Disimt. ii. One Year 1 S5 The Daily Dispatch 1 delivered by carriers at 25 cen is per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at 10 cent per t eek. PITTsBUlSG. WEDNESDAY. MAY 3. 18TC. TWELVE PAGES AXDSIMBISGX SIC. Whatever may be thought of the mo tives of the political managers who are now urging Blaine and those motives will not be valued for more than they are worth it is undeniable that an immensely inspiring responsive thrill has been telt through the Republican party at the re newed suggestion of the Secretary's name. Leaving all questions of the maneuvering of big and little politicians aside, great satisfaction will be felt everywhere if the Secretary's health be such that under any circumstances he can feel justified in tak ing the nomination. Several recent incidents go to indicate that either his health Is not so feeble as some of the Harrisonites would make us believe, or else that there has been of late a won derfully sharp and decided recovery. The Secretary's nimble movements at Wash ington lately have been reassuring. There was no trace of feebleness in the sweep ing letter in which he disposed of ex Llbrarlan Bancroft last week. Ho was bold and confident in his bearing with the New "Fork correspondents Monday night, and spoke like a man who meant not only to live, but to enjoy life for some time to come. It Is wise, therefore, to recognize that, while the leading motives of Clarkson, Piatt and Quay are doubtless as charged that they love not Blaine more, but Harri son less facts are nevertheless coming to the surface as to the Secretary's condition which may fully justify Blaine's nomina tion. As for the country, it would be greatly gratified if this view prove correct It does not want Blaine offered as a physi cal sacrifice on the altar of the mean ambitions of Flatt and his associates; but it would feel it a pnvilego to have an opportunity to bestow its highest honor on the ablest living American in public life. RAME IN 'S AME, BUT DIFFERENT. On another page of this issue will be found some interesting comparisons be tween the Law and Order Society of Phil adelphia and that of Pittsburg. The two organizations have nothing in common but their name. The Philadelphia society has legitimate objects, works openly and above board, has a large number of mem bers, and is supported both by the con stituted authorities and the publio at large. Its members belong to no sect, re ligious or political; among them are found leading and respected men of the city. In Pittsburg the few who usurp the title and pose as the sole supporters of law and or der are ashamed to publish their names, use men who are in jail most of the time, stoop to the meanest methods for obtain ing convictions, and generally convey the idea that their mam objects are to make themselves obnoxious and secure their share of the fines. The Philadelphia body confines its efforts to the suppression of real moral evils, while the Pittsburgers dissipate their energies in the attempt to suppress public conveniences which rank as practi cal necessities. It is too much to hope for a reform on the part of McClure's em ployes, but they would be wise to take a leaf from their Eastern namesakes. There is, however, one consolation for Pittsburg If the newsboy persecutors refuse to make a voluntary move for the better. This lies in the fact that the next Legislature will without doubt see the wisdom of repealing an antiquated and obsolete law which has proved a temptation to men who are now generally regarded as a public nuisance. THE lXECTKICAL VICTORY. There is a double cause for congratula tion in the victory of Mr. Westinghouse securing for his company the contract for electric lighting in the Chicago Exposition. Both public policy and local interests are benefited by this result to a decided de gree. In the first respect the effort of an electrical combination to exact excessive prices from a public enterprise has been defeated. The greed of the combination policy, as displayed In the way the charges on this contract were expanded, has been duly noticed. The Westinghouse com petition has decisively and finally de feated this scheme and insured the light ing of the Exposition at moderate rates. In the second place, the contract brings an amount of work to Pittsburg equal to the lighting af the two cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny. It promises active em ployment for the local electrical in terests, and beyond that it shows that the electrical interests of our city are not only able to meet fair competition but to de feat the methods employed by a combina tion to shut them out of a lare contract. While Pittsburg's other interests may be slow in providing for full representa tion at Chicago, the electric display given by Pittsburg will be a splendid ex hibit by itself. MR. SIMPSON'S MISTAKES. Uncle Jerry Simpson will find that things have been made uncomfortably warm for bim when he returns to Kansas to seek re-election to Congress. Pictur esque oratory, of the kind wherein Mr. Simpson is an old master, may be made to cover a multitude of sins. Its mantle might even be stretched to cover such comparatively unimportant details as an outspoken declaration in favor of free trade and against the antl-optlon bill. But, alas for poor Jerry, the Kansas farm-" ers have learnt that he has committed offenses that, compared with these de tails, are really grave and serious. Visitors from Kansas to Washington have made some horrible discoveries. They have seen their Representative m dressed in tailor-made clothes, with sup plementary socks, kid gloves and a walk ing stick. Worse still, they have found that he rides a bicycle at times when he should be voting in tho House. And his leisure is occupied with epl-cyclic exercise on asphalt pavements" In place of agricul tural experiments on any vacant lot where he could find room for them. All these errors ot Judgment Jeremiah Simp son will have to face on the stump. He will find full use for all his rhetorical powers, or his songs of a universal pros perity to be achieved by vague impalpable srhemps will be changed to a painful per sonal jeremiad. THE DEATH PENAIVTY INFLICTED. . At 11 o'clock yesterday Patrick Fltzpat rick expiated the murder of Samuel Early on the gallows at the county jail. The in terval between the crime and the punish ment has not been as long as in some cases, but the interval between this exam ple of capital punishment and the last one is decidedly significant It is eight years since a murderer has been hanged in Allegheny county. If this long respite from the infliction of the death penalty were caused by freedom from capital crimes it would be an espe cially grateful fact to notice. But the op posite is forced upon the attention of everyone by the frequency of homicides. During last year the number of killings averaged one every ten days. In the past five years there have been homicides enough to establish an average of 2 per month. It is impossible to resist tbe con clusion that tho infrequency of tho ex treme penalty has created a belief among the class addicted to violent crimes that they can incur the danger of taking life with a fair chance of escaping the gal lows. In this view it is to be hoped that the execution of Pitzpatrick will disturb the belief that hanging is played out In Alle gheny county. The murder for which he was hanged was not more wanton than others in which the murderer has escaped with imprisonment; but it was such as to fully justify hanging. If the infliction of the death penalty can be taken as a proof that the polioy of misplaced mercy to homicides is abandoned it must exert some restraint on the alarming tendency to violent crimes. That is undoubtedly one of tho social needs of the day. Justice should be deliberate and unerring; but It should also be so certain that people prone to violence will know that they cannot give way to their criminal propensities with impunity. THE COURT AND THE ACT. There has been a good deal of foolish talk about the recent decision of the Su preme Court on the "party rate" question proving fatal to the Inter-State bommeree law. Those who bad a fair amount of in formation on the subject knew that there was no reason for thinking so; and the full report of the decision shows that the court entirely maintains the principles and purposes of the act As The Dispatch has stated from time to time in the progress of the case, the crusade against party rates was entirely a pooling idea, started for the purpose of preventing tho cheapening of rates by that means just before the passage of the act After the act was passed, the pool ing interest In the railroads strove to en force the idea that the act supported their enmity to these reduced rates. This would have done no more harm than the other railroad misrepresentations concerning 'that measure, if the Inter-State Com merce Commission, which has been constantly in sympathy with pooling ideas, had not adopted that view. The Dis patch has shown that a reduced rate to parties of -a stated number was not an unjust discrimination, and was closely related to, if not identical with the specific clauses of the aefwith regard to commutation and excursion rates. The Supreme Court in its opinion takes exactly that view, and in its remarks on the neces sity of legislating against unjust discrim inations shows that it is not hostile to the purpose or spirit of the act The Supreme Court Jias not ruled against the Inter-Stato Commerce law, but has corrected a misinterpretation of it The law is In . nonsuch danger from the court as it is from the failure to enforce it "SYSTEM" GAMBLING. By some testimony In a recent suit in New York the theory is made very strong that the squandering of two millions by E. M. Field was accomplished in backing a "system" invented by a certain Dr. Howard and warranted by the inventor to be a sure thing for beating the stock mar ket The fact is a suggestive one, more for its classification of the operations con-. ducted in Wall street -than for anything novel in its disclosure of human credulity. All the great gambling institutions are noted for the stimulating quality which they have on fatuous gudgeons for the invention of "systems" that are sure to win. A large share of Europe gives its leisure time to devising systems for beat ing the game at Slonte Carlo, with rare Intervals of going there to try the system and coming back in a cleancd-out condi tion. Numerous fools In this country have been convinced that they have a certain plan for beating lottery and the hor?e races; but the scheme always breaks down for lack of funds to work it clear out. The ruinous results of playing these systems are so notorious as to become a proverb among mere common place and less infatuated gamblers. It needs4 only the disclosure that there is "a sure 'system" in Wall street which brings its backer to irretrievable smash, to complete the classification of that game in the list of pure gamblers. There are still a few persistent optimists who try to think that the Wall street game is an actual and legitimate investment of the nation's sur plus. But when we find Wall street brokers playing systems with all the fa tuity of a gambler at Monte Carlo, the last pretense is taken away. , The disclosure renders it pertinent to say that there are just two systems one honest and the other dishonest for beat ing all these gambles, whether with horses, cards or stocks. One is to put your money in the savings bank and let them severely alone. Tho other is to play them with msrked cards and loaded dice. "The unspeakable crime for which they wero lynched outlaws tho perpetrator, whether white or black, in every part of tho United Statos." So said Bishop Fitzgerald apropos of recent lynchlngs of negroes by Southern mobs. He f.itled, however, to add, as he uiljht have done with advantage, that the act 01 lynching incrluiinutos the lynch er", whether black or white, and is de rogatory to the dignity of constituted authority. No matter lioir guilty of the vilest crime the vlotim of mob violenco may be, by taking the law Into Its own hands the mob places Uelf on a level with the crim inal. East, West, North or South courts of law are tho pioper instruments for the ad ministration of justice, and If Juries or Judges cannot be depended on to bring In nn unbiased .verdict and award a proper sentence they must be reformed by the force of public opinion, and not further weakened by tho contemptuous lawlessness of amob. There is a prolific field for invention in the realm of dreams which has up to the present In some izexpllcable manner eluded , tbe enterprise of imaginative Interpreters of the Fresldental situation. Any one can see without the help of tbe peculiarly well informed editor of the inter. Ocean that Harrison "cannot now decline the contest forced upon him." Of course the zealous civil service reformer would like to bavo a walkover for the nomination, but the contest is being more forced upon him every day. And he will need all the advantages of his massage training to pi event a serious disfigurement, to say nothing ot a knockout, in the Minneapolis prize ring. A bear was caught in Washington, D. C, yesterday. It had strayed from the Zoolozical Gardens, and not from the bear pits of the Capitol. Iowa is well up to date in divorce suits. A lady of Fort Dodge sue her husband for divorce because be killed her pet cat and re fused to kiss her. He replies that ho refused to kiss her bemuse sho ltUsed tho cat. The domestic feline has long borne in meekness more that its share of blamo for breakages of household china, but its nine lives all told are not enough to cause such serious family Jars as this. Jerry Simpson is Inclined to ride roughshod over the Democratic party, evon if he has to remove his socks for the pur Dose. Allegheny's City Clerk is wrathful because a Cleveland banking firm addressed a letter to bim as the "Village Clerk." The Cleveland people arc really inexcusable, for Allegheny's greatness has been well adver tised by recent prosecutions of city officials. A man who lives in a house boat on the Allegheny river resembles a bicyclist, inas much as ho goes on between two rings. 'There is a great lack ot consideration for loss happily situated persons shown by tho Californlaus who make public the fact that tho first wheat of this season has al ready been harvested and sold. WHEN Pittsburg's wires get under ground the wire puller will be able to work with greater secrecy than ever. There can bo but little doubt that one of those most interested in the nomination of Mr. Blaine Is Mr. Cleveland. The Cleveland men would then insist that there was no one else in sight. Quay's arrival has been announced again, and once more Pittsburg Is pervaded by the silent hush of expectancy. In these days of arrogant authors and a desire for notoriety, it is truly surprising that the composer of the Grant-Conkllng letter falls to respond to the cries for bis ap pearance. Whitney has a little boom of his own now. It may be a gib-boom, bat it will prob ably turn out a gibe. Hill's private secretary says that Hill will write no letter of declination. And of course the private secretary knows every thing that Hill is going to do before ha does it. Wisconsin has decided against prohibi tion. Water is naturally unpopular out there this year. Secretary Foster objects to appearing at Minneapolis as a Harrison delegate, but it is the conspicuousness of the matter that he dislikes rather than the principle. Allegheny county had an execution yesterday, and the weather was fairer than usual. On the whole there is no necessity that a relief fnnd should be raised for the benefit of the county officers whose salaries have Deen docked by the Supreme Court. Pedestrians may still patronize Market street in comparative safety. -1 - "WES' tiNohouse' has beaten the Trust, but the World's Fair people are mean enough to demand a $l,00O,CO0 deposit before they trust him with the contract. BLAnra seems to be a well man. and wells are notably deep. Pittsburg's record at Chicago was un spoilt, or unimproved as the case may he, by the weather's interference with the ball game yesterday. ELAINE. The Main Things in Connection With the Present Gosilp. New York Son. 1 The air is full of rumors and contradic tions about Mr. Blaine's health and illness, ability and disability, willingness and un willingness. Much of it all, we dare say, is inero talk and invention, without knowl edge or fact to go on. What people desire or dread, what they hope or fear, looms and flickers before tho imagination till the dif ference bctweon truth and falsehood, real ity and vacuity, disappears. What the fact is about Mr. Blaine we do not undertake to determine. Two things may, however, be taken lor certain. First If he takos the nomination for Pres ident, "he will stand a chance of getting more votes than any other-'prominent Re publican, provided the votors believe that be is able to do tho work of the Presidency. To convince the voters that he is up to that Job, bo must make at least three or four speeches. One of them, may be delivered in New York, one in Boston, one in Chicago, one in Cin cinnati, and one in Richmond. They must be tip-top speeches, full of the genuine old Blaine fire and quality, such as he showed In Ills palmy days. Theio must be no falling offrom the highest Blaine standard. Second If be should be nominated, and try to get through tho canvass without affording such unquestionable evidence of physical and mental power, the people would not believe that he is leally able to be Presi dent. Then he would be beaten worse thau would he possible for even Harrison or Alger, or any other conceivable Republican candidate. PROMINENT PERSONAGES. Mrs. Mary Russkll Day has b ecome Kentucky's State .Librarian. JonN Bach McMaster, the historian. has been offered the Presidency of the Penn sylvania University. Governor McKinlev attended the St Francis de Sales Catholio Church fair at Cincinnati last evening. Secretary Blaine yesterday drove to the Dauirosch house- and saw for the first time hi-) youngest grandchild. Andrew-Carnegie is said to have a profound knowledge of botany, though doubtless his favorite plant Is a steel rail mill. At the recent opening of the horticul tural exhibition In London, Buffalo Bill sat in state, -with Mrs. Mackay in the seat of honor on his right. Sir John Pauncefore, the British Minister at Washiugton, gave a dinner Monday night to Teopold, Hereditary Prlnco of Isenburg-Belsteln. General John C. New, United States Consul General at London, spent a portion of yesteidayat tho White Honso. He will he present at the Minneapolis Convention. Ex-Senator Jones, of Iowa, was re cently in Washington renewing his ac quaintance with a place which he first knew na a Congressman 60 years ago. He Is now S9 yeais old. Mrs. Grover Cleveland sent a Chip pendale dressing table as a bridal gift to Miss Gwendoline Jackson, of 'Jamaica, West Indies, who was recently married to Joseph 33. Gilder, tbe editor of the Critic And He Is Bead. 4few York Advertiser. Undo Jbhn Robinson, the circus man, is the only man who could adequately describe this'weather. JERRY SIMPSON'S DANGER. nil Old Friends In Kansas Think He's Put ting on Too Mnoh Style. Topeka, Kaks., May 21. Special. The fight to prevent the re-election of Jerry Simpson to Congress opened this week and it will be the most interesting political con test that has ever' been waged in Kansas. Of course, it will be the aim of the Repub licans to defeat the entire Alliance Con gressional ticket, but tbe fight will be dl lected principally against Jerry Simpson. He is rcgnrded by Republicans as the smait est member o'f the Alliance delegation In Congres-, and they fear that his re-election would do a great deal toward strengthening the new party not only in Kansas but in nil the agricultural States of tho West. His defeat, it is believed, would do more to Dreak up the Third Party in Kansas than anything eUe that could happen. Simpson knows very well that a big fight is on his hands, and he knows also that tho rate of the People's Party in this State dopends to a gre.it extent upon tbe result in his district. Considerable correspondence has passed between Simpson and the mana gers of the People's Party in the last two weeks, In which Simpson was given to understand that he must enter the cam paign at the earliest moment. A letter has Justbeen received by him, in which he ptomlses to be here not later than August 1, and fiom that time until Novem ber 1 ho will give his ontlro time to the fight. His district includes 26 counties, and with but ono exception Is the largest Con gressional district in the United States. His plan Is to devote almost a week to eaoh county and to make a school house cam paign. Simpson is one of the best political speakers the State has over known. His forto is a stump snoech. Ills canvass two years ago In the Seventh district was in many respects the most remarkable ever con ducted In Kansas. It is impossible for Simpson to make a clear, logical argument on any question, but when placod before an andlenco of farmers and worklngmen, of which bis constituency is largely comprised, he makes a speech that almost carries them off their feet. Simpson knows his power in this respect, and the face that he is arrang ing to make a school house campaign shows that he proposes to win his way back to Congress with his clever stump speeches and funny stories. The Republicanswill endeavor to place Simpson on the defensive. He will first be required to answer for his position on the tariff question. His speeoh declaring for absolute free trade is alroady being, circu lated by the thousand in Simpson's district, and he will be vigorously attacked on that line. A great many of the fai mers of Kansas, Democrats as well as Republicans, are strongly opposed to free trade, and the Re- puDllcans believe that Simpson has greatly injured his chances for re-election In coming out as an advocate of free trade pure and simple. He is being criticised also for his conduct In Washington in the last year. A few of his farmer constituents have been to the National Capital and came back with the story that Simpson is "putting on airs." A Comanche county tanner reported at a meeting of the Farmers' Alliance in his county last week that while at Washington he saw Simpson wearing kid gloves, carry ing a dnde's walking stick and fixed up In a tailor-made suit of clothes. He declared very emphatically that as a farmer Con gressman and a man who protonded to be a representative of tbe farmers, Simpson was putting on too much style. Neither are they pleasea with Jerry's bicycle riding. A great many farmers think that a man who devotes a good share of his time to a bicycle is not gooa ior anyening eise. Tne story has Deen circulated In several counties in Simpson's district that on ono or two occasions, when Important appropriation bills were before the Houso, Simpson was having fun with his bicycle, and failed to be present when the vote was taken. Another charge against Simpson is that be changed front on the measure to prevent option dealing in grain. The farmers have a notion that option dealing lowers tbe price of grain, and any measure which has for its object the prohibition of that busi ness meets with their indorsement. Simp son was at the start In favor of the antl optlon bill, but recently he declared against it, and the story was circulated among the farmers that the "board of trade lobbv" in Washington, gpt'nround Simpson and fn flenced him to change front. Simpson will have his free trade Speech, his bioycle rid ing; his sryllsh dross, his flop on the antl optlon bill and a number of other things to explain when he returns to Kansas. The People's party managers claim that when Simpson gets before the people he will stir them up as he did two years ago, and that he will win the fight by 6,003 ma jority. The Republicans propose to get the start ot Simpson, and already have speakers in his district. They will send their strong est men to that section of the State, and, as soon as the National Republican Committee is 1 eorganlzed, will ask that men ot national reputation bo sent to 'their assistance. The Republicans will meet at Kinsman on June 15 to nominate a candidate against Simpson. It is quite possible that Senator Chestor. I. Long, one of the ablest young Re publicans of the Southwest, will receive tho nomination. He lives in Medicine Lodge Simpson's homo and though but 29 years of age is legarJed as one of the best cam paigners in the State. He has been pitted against Simpson in numeious local political contests at their own home, and always came out victoiiou. The Republicans be lieve ho can make a canvass that will deieat Simpson. AN0THEK STEP TOWAED UNION Taken by the A. M. E. Conference, Which Has Adjourned at 1'hlladelphia. Philadelphia, May 21. The turbulent Quadiennial Confcienco of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has been in continuous session in this city for three weeks, adjourned this morning to meet in Wilmington, N. C, In 1S08. Among the important matters under consideration during the closing hours of the Conference was the proposed consolidation of tho two great branches of the colored Methodists' church, the African Methodist Episcopal Churoh and the African Methodist Episcopal Z1011 Church. Bishop Turner announced to tho Conference that he had received a tele gram from Bishop C. R. Harris, of the A. M. E Zlon Chutch, announcing the proposed consolidation of tho tno brandies, the united body to bo known as "African and Ziou Methodist Episcopal Church." Rev. Dr R. Green at once moved tho adop tion of the name ns a stop toward organized union. Bishop Turner favored the appoint ment of a commission to visit the Zion Church Conleionce with reference to the change ot name, and upon motion ot Rev. W. H. MIson, yesterday's action ot the Con ference is to bo submitted to tho Zlon Con ference, and tho Board of Bishops u ere em pow ered with the. duty of transmitting tbe same information to tho general annual and quaitcrly conleienco of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Will ftencw Their Crusade. New York Sun. The American dress reformers aro pre paring to renew their crusade at Chautauqua this year. They declare that their reforma tory ideas ate making rapid progress all over the country, but especially in the cool headed city of Boston ana the hot-hoadod city or Chicago. They havo not much hope of undermining the prejudices of tho lair sex in .New York city. Governor Flower Proud of His Reoord. New York Advertiser. Governor Flower is proud of the record whicli he has made in Albany. So wns the cat that devoured tho canary. She smacked her lips and complacently imagined that she bad done a great thing. Australia Sets Another Example. Chicago Mall. The prompt conviction and execution of Murdeier Deeming at Melbourne suggest that the Kangaroo ballot is not tho only Australian lelorm which this country should adopt. Virginia Holding Her Own. Boston Herald. There are 3J candidates for the seat of the late Senator Barbour. Virginia can still claim to be tbe mother of statesmen. The Stato Thnt Never Takes. Water. New York Press, Kentucky is for Carlisle ror Presldentdn dead earnest, and Kentucky nevor takes" water under any clrouinstances. THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. Wiser to Take Advantage of the Current Than to Try to Stem It. Spokane Spokesman. A distinguished colored divine of Virginia some years ago astonished his fellow citi zens and made himself famous by announc ing that "the sun do move." Notwithstand ing tho strong evidence- he has brought to support this theory ho has had a monopoly of that belief among civilized peoplo ever since he announced It. Thero are a number ofgood people who, while not accoptlng the theory or the sun's moving, are equally loath to recognize thnt if the sun does not the world does, and the progress and advance ment of civilization and the controlling ideas of mankind move with it. Two hundred years have passed since the blue laws of Connecticut were enacted and Salem burned witches. While a good many Americans to-day aro prond or the fact that their ancestors passed the one and be lieved In tho other, they would bo very much ashamed or soein; tho old laws en forced, and aro very far from profossing any faith In witches and wizzards. What seemed very natural and propor to Cotton Mather is looked upon as tho grossest superstition to day. Lloeral Ideas have takon tho place of the old-time bigotry, and the gospel of char ity nas replacod tho go?pel of terror. With this ohango of ideas has nnturally come a change in methods, and oven good churchmen no longer think It necessary to abstain from all social enjoyment and amusement on Sundays. Addo to this change Is tho progress of tho arts and sciences: the introduction of tlie steam en gine, and the development of similar insti tutions which have made it necessary to do muchmoto work on Sunday than in tho old days or tho Puritans: the result of this has been that a great deal of labor Is legitimate and necessary to-day which under the old system ot things could be avoided. With the spread or theso liberal ideas many institutions, such as the Sunday news paper, havo grown up and beoomo a part or the dally lire of the nation, and to suppress them is as impossiblo as it would bs to stop the running of Sunday trains or street car3 on that day. Is it not the part of wisdom for church men to take advantage of the current rather than to attempt to stem it? There aro thousands who read the Sunday papers who never go to church and wuo can only be reached with religious teaching through the medium of the press. It would be better for the clergy to endeavor to lend their aid to make the Sunday papers more religious than to endeavor to suppress tbe m. IN FAVOR OF SINGLE TAX A Remarkable Report Made by a Special Committee of the House. Washikotoit, D. a, May 24. Tbe remarka ble report issued to-day of a special commit tee, whose Chairman is Congressman Tom Johnson, of Cleveland, appointed to investi gate the system of assessments in vogue in the District, attracts a deal of attention from all sorts of people. It goes into an elaborate statement of the difference be tween the treatment of tho ilch landlord and tbe small householders in tbe matter or assessments in a way which must make capitalists and subservient District officials wince. The report is reallv an exhaustive argu ment in tavor or a single tax on laud values only, upon a theory whose authorship is commonly ascribed to Mr. Henry George. Representative Johnson is devoted to that theory! and he compels the testimony taken to support it all through in a way which makes his paper really tue moststrlklng and revolutionary utterance that has ever como from 11 formal committee of Congress; and it lays stress on the lact that a large number ol persons giving testimony, persons or property and persons or the highest stand ing, expressed themselves as convinced that the single tax theory Is the only scientific one, or, at loast, the only possible reform, under the system or individual ownership or land. Notwithstanding these conclusions, tho plan or levying taxes on land values alone, and not on the land and its improve ments, is not embodied in tho recommenda tions, as, in tills matter, Mr. Johnson was ovenuled by his two associates; and the recommendations, therefore, aio merely for a simpler and more equitable way or making assessments. Mr. Johnson's purpose Is to a great extent accomplished, however. He has made an investigation Into a great abuse, has ex posed tlie abuse,- nnd has shown as ho and many other Congressmen and citizens think, that a tax on land values is the only pioper solution. He proves in his report that if this were the system, the revenues could be more than doubled with a levy or less than one-third ol the percentage now imposed, which Is "11 50 for every 100: and, also, that this would tail -In equitable proportion on rich and noor alike and would tend to abolish the evil of investment in unim proved land lor the purpose of letting it lie unused until It is gteatly enhanced in value by the growth ot population aiound it. AN0THEB PLEA FOB LAY W0BKEBS. This Time It Is the Baptist Union That Encounters the Snag. Philadelphia, May 21 The convention of the. American Baptist Union began its seventy-eighth anniversary meeting to-day. The announcement of committees by tha President caused some delay to the morn ing's proceedings. When he had concluded, Rev. Dr. H. L. Wayland, editor of tho Na tional Baptist, called attention to tbe fact that, notwithstanding the utterance of the Convention of 1883, the list of committees showed that the laymen were not equally represented, and he thought it hardly fair to bring the truly competent laymen from all sections of the country and then give them nothing to do. This caught the approval of the union, and the committees were rejected by a large majority. Rev. Henry C. Alabre, D. D., Home Secre tary, lead the report ot tlie Executive Com mittee. In puisuance of the vote of the union at its last annual meeting, the work of the year was planned on a jcale involving an expenditure or $690,003. The actual ex penses, including payment ol the deficit or $31,693 94 rrom tho previous year, were $635;-8-27 24, an increase of $102,159 09 over the pre vious year. The leceipts wero increased $96,8& 27. being $;C9, 172 9J. Although there is a debt of $66,754 31, the financial result of the year must be considered as cause for encouragement, as the expenditures of tho society havo increased $221,416 85 in tho last three years, and have mole than doubled in the last nine years. The report of Treas urer E. P. Colenvin showed a balance ajulust the treasury of $66,751 31. THE MEANE8I 80BT OF VANDALS. A Reward Offered for the Miscreants Who Interfered With the Mllltary'Cjelers. Bostow, May 24. Colonel Albert A. Pope, or this city, offers a reward of $500 for the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons who maliciously stretched barbed wlie across-the path or the bicyclers in the relay race Irom Chicago to New York, and maliciously cut the tires or tho bicycles, or who in any wny maliciously lnjurod or attempted to injure the riders' bicycles with the object of delaying or iutorlcring with the carrying of tho me3Jagc. DEATHS IILRB AND ELSEWHERE. Sir Alexander Campbell. Sir Alexander Campbell, Lieutenant Gov ernor of Ontario, died at Toronto yesterday, after a palnfnl Illness orscvcral weeks, recclTlng a stroke of piralrsls. He was one of the few remaining Canad.an politicians known as Fathers of t.ic Con federation of the Canadian Provinces, which took place in 1857. He was born In England In UiZ; begsn practicing law at t,ie Cananlan bar when 21; entered politics In 1833: was Speaker or the i.i-(tu-lailro Council of Canada In 138-. At different times he was Minister of the Interior, Postmaster General. Minister of Justice and Minister or Militia In the late Sir John Macdonald's Cabinet. He was knighted by tho Queen Mar 24, 17I', and made Lieutenant Governor of Ontario In 1&7. lu. which office he will likely be a-iccecJcd by Hon. ' George KirkpatrlcSt ex-Speaker uf the Canadian House of Commons. Obituary Noten. Samuel Hamilton-, a banker at Shrlbyvllle, Ind., is dead, aged 80 ye-irs. iMB Alcxandek Cami-dell, Lieutenant Gov ernor of Ontario, died yesterday afternoon at Toronto. James Griffix, ex-Register and Recorder, of Cambria country, died In Johnstown last night. Every other member of liis family was lost In the flood, leaving him with no living relative. He leaves an estate valued at 825, WW all of which goes to the Catholic church. Coloxkl C. A. Broadwater, President of the Montana Central division of the Great Northern Railway, died at Helena. Mont., yesterday. Al though a native of Missouri, he has been fdeutined with Montana ever since tlfe Commonwealth has bad a place on the map. He was President or tbe Montana National Bank, and member or the Demo cratic National Committee. ON THE7THRESH0LD. Bright Graduates Give Their Views or What Life Oneht to Be High School Com mencement Exercises at Homestead and Bradrtock Gossip of Society. The commencement exercises of the Homestead High School graduating class of eight members were held lastevenlng in the Fifth Avenuo Opera Houso at that place. Following wns the programme: Overture, Euphony Orchestra; prayer, Rev. W. L. C Sampson: Falntatorr, Miss Bertha Lloyd, snbject, "Without Sound of Hammer or Ax:" piano solo, "Alice," Asher, Miss Nellie G. RIsher: oration, Charles Morton. "Prog ress or Ages:" essay, Miss Belle Patton, "Practical Education:" recitation, Miss Hilda Kuhn: music. Euphony Orchestra; oration, Albert Holt, "Everyone the Architect or nis Own Fortune;" essay. Miss Mamie Cronln. "Plant While It Is Seed-time:" piano duet, ("Les Crelots"), "Slelih Bells," Boacovltz, Misses Nellie and Annie RIsher; oration, John Shaf fer, "Patriotism;" class prophecv. Miss Jennie Adams: oration, Claude Barton, "Trifles as Light as Air:" music. Euphony Orchestra; valedictory, Thomas Tiemey, "So Endeth Our First Lesson:" address, Kev. W. L. C. Sampson: piano tolo, "Serenade," Moszkowskl, Miss Annie RIsher; address by the Hon. Henry Houcfc, State Superintend ent of Public Instruction, which was In the nature of a baccalaureate exhortation. The diplomas were presented by the President of the Homestead School Board. The commencement exercises of the Brad dock High School graduating class of ten young ladles, were held last evening In the Fits: 31. E. Church at Braddook. Thsbacca laurate address was inivl to tho class Sun day evening by the Rev. Dr. Isaac C. Ket tler. President or Grove City College, 1,630 people being present. Tho programme or exercises wns especially Interesting. The Edgar Thomson Stool Works Orchestra furnished music, and Miss Elise Warren, the noted Chicago oratorio singer, sang two soles. At a meeting of the Department Presi dents of the Ladies of tho Grand Army, yes terday afternoon, it was decided to hold the annual Jubilee at th Hawkins Home, Thurs day, June 23. Thero will be 13 tables de voted to the sale of fancy work and refresh ments, and each table will be In charge of the Indies of a different circle. The lawn fete at the Home at Hawkins is always de lightful. The place Is one of the prettiest suburbs or Pittsburg, and the ladies always exert themselves to make the occasion en joyable. At previous anniversaries the at tendance has been larg", nnd a neat sum has been realized for the Deneflt of the Home, and there is no reason to expect anything less this year. There is every probability that the musical and literary entertainment Dy the members or tho Edgewood Presbyterian Church in the new schoolhouse on Friday will be a pleasant and Interesting occasion. Among the well-known artists that will par ticipate are Mrs. C. C. Mellor. Miss Margaret Crouch, Miss M. Orr, Mr. W. Cliff McCaus land, Mr. E. J. Lloyd. Prof. Roberts, elocu tionist, and Mr. Griffin, cornet. The: pro ceeds of the entertainment will go into the building fund for the new chapel. It will be a neat edifice, on Swlssvale avenue, and will seat 500 people. A Russian tea and .New England lunch will mako up the entertainment to be given under the auspices of the ladles of the First Unitarian Church to-morrow evening and Friday and Saturday, corner of Ross and Diamond streets. The tea will be served on Thursday, whou it will be prepared In tbe Russian style. There will be a Russian booth, in charge of Mrs. Langley, Mrs. Hold ship and Mrs. Fleishman. The aids will wear costumes of yellow and black, the Im perial colors, and will dispense stmwber lies and cream for those who do not care for caviare and Russian delicacies. Thero will be a real samovar, Russian cat a van tea, an Icon a sacred picture etc. Altogether, the entertainmont will be something not met with every day. As" for tho Xew England lunch, everyone knows that that Is a de lightful thing. Social Chatter. TffB first preliminary contest for the grand prize by the lady graduates of King's School of Oratory and Dramatic Culture, will take place to-morrow evening. Tnero will be It contestant-. The contest for tho David V. King medal will occur Fridar, that for tho Mrs. Inez Todd King medal, Tueday even ing. May SL and for the grand mcdaIThurs day evening, June 2. To-JioRiiow will take place the marriage of Miss Cecilia Kirsch, of Allegheny, to Frank A. Zellner, or New Philadelphia, O. The ceremony will be performed uc tne resi dence or the bride's mother, Mrs. F. Kirsch, on Perrysvllle avenue, Rev. G. Lorsch, or the German Lutheran Church, Southslde, offi ciating. Tlie couple will reside in Now Phil adelphia. A musical and literary ontertalnment Is to be given bv the Epworth Le iguo Friday at the Smithfield Street M. E. Cnurch. Tho paBtor, Rev. C E. Locke, and the President or the League will be present, and do their part toward making the affair a success. To-Jionnow will be Ascension Day. It is a holy day or obligation in the Catholic Church. Ti ere will be services in all the churches or that denomination, as well as in the Protestant Episcopal Churches. Mrs. Hehit Davis, r Sewlckley, gave a luncheon to a few lriends yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Davis will sail for Europe for a short stay on the 1st or July. The 14th or June is the date set for the wedding of Miss Mary E. Kennedy, of the West End, and Mr. Thomas Fitzpatrick, of the same neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Melvis House, who were lately married in New York, are In Pitts burg. They will reside permanently in Oakland. TnE Willing Workers' Mission Society will givo a fair and festival at 926 Fifth avenue. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, June 7 andS. Miss Hills, of Washington, D. C, Is visit ing Mrs. Howard Morton, of Denuiston ave nue. Mrs. Hexdricks, orSunbury, is tbe guest or Mrs. Biddle Arthurs. Mrs. Jarvi3 Adams bag cards out for a re ception Friday. Mrs. Pinrrs. of the Arsenal, gave a recep tion yesterday. Film Small and Congress. Philadelphia Press. Sam Small wishes to go to Congress. Well, if he gets there the wickedness thereof will have a picturesque as well as a common place side. EELAT BiCTCLINU. THEarrival orGeneral Miles' dispatch in New York dcinonsttates the fact that the bicycle is mightier than the mud. Boston Hera'd. The relay bicycle rldo was, on the whole, a success. Four days from Chicago to .N ow York over unfavorable roads was certainly not bad. Baltimore yews. Relat bicycling may bo an excellent thing for spoi t, but the present exhibition has not shown In any way that the bicycle would be of practical service In military campaigns. Qrand Jlapids Herald. That tho bicycle can bo made useful m war has been already demonstrated. Rut one of the greatest benefits that the bicycle has accomplished is the starting of tho agi tation for good roads. Hoslon Globe. The great bicycle relay race from Chicago to Now York has proved tne skill and pluck of American wheelmen, and that these qualities might come well Into play In some important emergency. New York livening World. General Miles thinks an army on bicy cles among the possibilities. An nrmy on bicycles charging up a steep hill would doubtless put tho enemy to rout. An enemy couldn't shoot and laugh at the same tlmo. New York Herald. Tnx trip by bicycle from Chicago to New York will have much Interest lor the people generally, and without reference to tho question whether bicycles are more service able than horses in carrying dispatches be tween the Generals or tho army. Brooklyn Citizen. Gexehal Miles Is quoted as saying thnt a bicycle rider can go whero no horse can follow. Will tho General be kind enough to name one or those places? ir there Is any such spot attainable it must bo after the rider has abandoned his wheel. New York Advertiser.' The ride or the wheelmen rrom Chicago to New York has been one long pull through almost bottomless mnd. Tho praollcal out come will be a demand for good roads, and ifwlll como up with a volume and hearti ness that will drown the roar of the floods. Chicago Tribune. CDRI0US CONDENSATIONS There are 399 millionaires in this I The Australian dog and the Egy shepherd dog never bark. In Great Britain there are 18,000 lords and 28,000,000 tenants. The patentee of the "drive well' royalties estimated at $3,000,000. The broken and distorted foot Chinese lady is called a "Golden lllj Chinese admirers of snch distortions. Dncks fly at an average rate of 90 per hour. With a fair wind it is bel that they can mako 350 miles in the time. A subscription ot 32 37 from eac habitant ol tho United States would ont every national. State and muni debt in the country. A calf with a single eye, no ears five legs is the Joy of Wnyno county, I: is now over a month old, and bids fl grow into lull cowhood. One of the largest of Boston's 1 drygoods stores now has a gymnasin the top floor for the use of tho salesw and other female employes. A New York manufacturer of trav goods Imports a great many elephant annually, ne uses them for making tn which ho says are becoming popular. The 'Women's Temple, In Chi which cost $GCO,C0O, was largely paid fo or the contributions or penny banks, 1 or which were opened, It Is said, for the pose. The longest train ever handled single engine in this country has Just hauled on the Reading road. It conti 250 empty cars and was a mile and a qu ia length. The,total force in the naval se afloat in 1890 was 53 339 officers and me whom 30.0JO were betweon the ages of 1! 24, 17.310 between 25 nnd 3 5,150 betwei nna ana ;j aoovo 10 years 01 age. An aged parson, who recently vi Caribou, Me., stated that he had writtei delivered 1.500 sermons, and that It toot 700 of the manuscripts to fill a barrel, measuro Is what tho unappreclative vill: called it. A dentist of Ansonia, Conn., a days since advertised that he would se auction a set of false teetb, "now In mouth of a patient." The dentist madi teeth seven years ago, and claims they never paid lor. Jacob Fegley, living along the Pe men Creek, near Quakcrtown, Md., gatb enough feathers to mako four good-' feather beds after a flock of about 500 geese had spent the night in a swamp o place on their way North. Seventy thousand people kissed humerus or St. Ann, the saintly relic w had a stay of two weeks in New York, many miraculous cures were chronlcli the metropolitan dallio. It issaidtba cures are not permanent, however. The felt cloth which is made into is composed chiefly of the hair of rab hares or coats, mixed with much v These substances are entangled toge and pressed and beaten until they adhei form a compact but flexible material. Tho "World's Fair Commission Brazil is at borne, actively dovelopln exhibit from that country, among tbe I lng features of which will be groups of chona, coffee trees In benring, coclii cactus, mammoth palms.lerus, bamboos, and models of fruit. It is stated that the height of human body is generally ten times length of the face; tho face Is as long as band; the arm Is rour times the length of lace; tho 'sole is one-sixth the length of body, and six times tho thickness of hand equals the thickness of tbe body. The guillotine is to have its centen this year, the first execution on le ha taken place in May, 1702, when a brig named Pelletler was experimentally cuted by tho new invention, being the to feel that "light and pleasant freshnpj the neck'' to whicu Dr. Guillotine wouli often rerer. Medical authorities declare that people are less able to resist the attack disease or tho shocks of injuries and op tions than the moderately thin. Thei spiratory muscles cannot so easily act; t heart is often handicapped by the doposi ltund the least exertion throws them in perspiration. InVuitralin the aboriginals are 1 most successfully in tracing game and o objects In pursuit. With their eyes fl upon the grass, sometimes even kncclin scrutinize the ground more closely, exa 1 ing a torn leaf or a broken twig, thev toll how long since the game pascdj, whether it was alarmed or unsuspicious. The cigarette has been put to a use. A gambler In Cheyenne smoked t incessantly while playing and so mar the backs of the cards with nicotine st that thev could readily be read by his c federates. The little scheme wasdisCovc after three weeks of play, and now the g: bllng-rooms have signs conspicuously po stating that cigarette smoking Is barred. There have been daring the past y. a series of fashionable crazes in Jai The year 1873 wns tho rabbit year. Japanese wont wild ovor tho little quae Deds. As much as 300 was paid for a sii specimen, nnd speculations in X 103 and j rabbits were of dally occurrence. C fighting, printing dictionaries bysubsc tlon, boating, whist, wnltzing, gigantic nerals and tablo turning aro among othe cent crazes. At the last meeting of the Royal Soc thero was shown an oyster shell from Th day Island, In the Torres Strait, upon wh a bright and splendid pearl had been 1 duced by artificial process. The process self was not divulged. Photographs of In? butlers showed that a nistol bullet tl eled 750 feot a second; a 3Iartlnl-Honry 1 let 1.750 feet; anew English magnzlno 1 bullet with smokeless powdcr2,000 feet, nn aluminum bullet under similar coi tions, 3.C00 feet. A carious lawsnit is engaging the tentlon of the court at Ecija, Spain. The Is over the sum ot 250,003 pesetas and a ba A stranger sonie time ago handed the r road station master a sealed letter an heavy box. On opening the box he roan baby, and at once banded it over to swil man and his wire. When the switchma wire undressed tho Infant for Dcd sho 101 rolled up in i ts clothing a qnantlty of b: notes, which, as the paper stated, wero to applied to tho child's education. The stat master demanded tho return of tho ba but the switchman refusod, holding tha was given him 'without reservation. FKOSI FUNNY TJSNS. "Lieutenant Totten says the world coming to an end soon." "Who's Lieutenant Totten?" ne's the-rr-er-why, he's the fellow n says the world Is coming to an eai."-Jmlje. ITow doth the downtown merchant ga; Off from his offlcc sneak. On plea of Illness dire at home. One afternoon each week; And as he cheers the baseball gamo With loud. ecstatic-Joy, He sees upon tha bleaching boards His clerks and office boyt -N. T. Benk Beggar Won't you give me a dime, si Splggit If I do, I suppose you'H spend It whisky. Beggar (franklr)-Yes. sir. bplggitt-1 hen here It is. If I thought you wo waste It buying bread. I'd Invest It In whisky r, till. Smith, Gray Co.'t Monthly. Teacher Tommy, yon know what I to yon yesterday, that If you didn't run right ho and tell your mother yon had played truant 1 week. I would give yon a good whipping. Tommy Yes'm; an' I told her. Teacher What did she say? Tommy She aaldltl hadn't told her shewn have licked me. too. Puc. Down to the Gravsend track he went The races for to play. With a goodly store of suesels Against the odds to lay; And while be lost his money Invatn attempt to win. His wife picks out the winners On her programme with a pint X Y. ncnli Dottie Are you going to wear your n and white blazer at the seashore again this su mer? Lottie No Indeed. I hadn't-been there a' la st year before I was proposed to by three t bers. Cloak Review. Mrs. Bloobumper I saw in the pP that Dr. King, a German scientist, has dlscove a method of making a nutritious bread ont wood. Bloobumper ne must want to 'board' the cc mualty. Detroit Fns Prtti. ' &&, . :?,iitWKlf
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